Privacy Statement

Information Privacy Act 2000

The main purposes of this Act are to:

(a)      Establish a regime for the responsible collection and handling of personal information in the Victorian public sector

(b)      Provide individuals with rights of access to information about them held by organisations, including information held by contracted service providers

(c)      Provide individuals with the right to require an organisation to correct information about them held by the organisation, including information held by contracted service providers

(d)      Provide remedies for interferences with the information privacy of an individual

(e)      Provide for the appointment of a Privacy Commissioner